Genesis 1:13

After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 3.

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In The King James Version

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

In Context

12So all sorts of plants grew on the land, plants with seeds, and trees with fruit that have seeds inside. God looked at all those plants, and he saw that everything was good.

14Then God said, “I want some lights in the sky. I want the lights to split up the day time from the night time. They will show the time. They will show the season, and the time of the year, and the time of day.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:8And when God made it, he called it sky. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 2.

Mark 14:30But Jesus said to him, “Listen to me, Peter. Tonight you will tell people that you don’t know me. You will say that 3 times, and then a chook will yell out 2 times, just like it always does before the sun comes up.”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:10-14

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding… Read the whole commentary →

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